Av­er­age In­ter­val in days from pro­vi­sion­ing start to cir­cuit ready

Even more var­ied than the speed of de­liv­ery was the fre­quency with which each car­rier met their in­stal­la­tion com­mit­ments. The study com­pared the car­rier de­liv­ery com­mit­ment to the ac­tual date the cir­cuit was in­stalled to gen­er­ate an on-time de­liv­ery per­cent­age. Even in highly de­vel­oped coun­tries 30-40% on time rates were com­mon. In many cases the speed of de­liv­ery did not cor­re­late with the on-time per­cent­age, even in­stances where the fastest car­rier in a given coun­try also had the high­est per­cent­age of missed com­mit dates.